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* 7.45 follow-up
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10TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_00Makoto's stricken look bespeaks a serious incident.
21TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_01Captain Kongo is dead. According to Makoto, the man committed seppuku in order to atone for his failure in dealing with the insurgents. But there is no time to mourn or even hold funeral rites, for the Tairo is about to arrive, and the Sekiseigumi must ensure his safety. Makoto has been tasked with patrolling the Short Pier, and she asks that you join her in keeping watch for suspicious activity.
32TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_02You stand watch at a corner of the pier, but see nothing out of the ordinary. Time to move on to the next spot.
43TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_03You stand watch at a corner of the pier, and catch sight of a quaint charm on the ground. Perhaps it bears investigating.
54TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_04You pick up the charm, which is rather worse for the wear and caked in blood besides. Makoto will wish to see this without delay.
65TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_05Examining the bloodstained charm, Makoto realizes that she has seen it before: adorning Captain Kongo's neck. With this comes the disturbing realization that the captain may have in fact been slain by insurgents, and you rush off to the Thavnairian Consulate to find Shiden and have him bolster security around the Tairo.
76TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_06You arrive at the Thavnairian Consulate, but Shiden is not there. Speaking with the Sekiseigumi present, it would seem the nature of the Tairo's visit is in fact personal and not official, and you will instead find him at Sanjo Hanamachi, the pleasure quarters of Kugane.
87TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_07You catch Shiden as he is stalking into the pleasure quarters, his katana drawn. It does not take long for Makoto to deduce that he is a traitor, and he proceeds to tell you of his disillusionment with the Sekiseigumi and subsequent recruitment to Ugetsu's cause. With the preamble thus finished, you and Makoto lock swords with Shiden and his fellow turncoats. As the battle unfolds, Captain Kongo, believed dead till now, joins the fray with those still faithful, and with their help you emerge triumphant.
98TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_08Rather than be taken alive, Shiden turns his blade on himself, and Captain Kongo bids a solemn farewell to his old friend. Turning to you and Makoto, the captain then reveals how he narrowly escaped death in an ambush, after which he laid low that he might keep watch over the traitors' movements. With the Tairo safe and the Sekiseigumi ranks purged of insurgents, you may return to the barracks to continue the conversation.
109TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEQ_09Captain Kongo begs your forgiveness for his earlier discourtesy, and shares with you what he was able to learn from the apprehended traitors. While much of Ugetsu's operations have come to light, little is still known of his whereabouts beyond that he makes his base somewhere in the vast expanse of Yanxia, upon the mainland. Makoto raises the doubt you have been harboring: how does serving a hedonist such as the Tairo serve the nation? For his many vices, the captain explains, the man is instrumental in keeping the realm whole, and though the bakufu may be a cesspool of corruption, it is the samurai's calling to protect the peace. Though you are come from afar, you share this calling, and both the captain and Makoto ask that you continue lending your blade to the cause. ※The next samurai quest will be available from Makoto upon reaching level 68.
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2524TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_TODO_00Survey the designated location.
2625TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_TODO_01Survey the designated location.
2726TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_TODO_02Examine the quaint charm.
2827TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_TODO_03Show the bloodstained charm to Makoto.
2928TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_TODO_04Speak with Makoto.
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3130TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_TODO_06Speak with Makoto.
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4948TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_000Player, it's terrible!
5049TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_000Captain Kongo... He has committed seppuku!
5150TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_001He wished to atone for his failure to catch Ugetsu and all the casualties we've incurred. So he wrote in the letter they found next to his body.
5251TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_002With His Excellency the Tairo soon to arrive in Kugane, all is in chaos; we haven't even had the chance to hold funeral rites.
5352TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_003It is all Shiden can do to keep our order functioning. Yet function we must, for the Tairo is likely to be targeted by Ugetsu and his cohorts.
5453TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_004As part of the security detail, I am tasked with patrolling the Short Pier area. I should be grateful for your extra pair of eyes, Player.
5554TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_005I am in your debt. If aught strikes you as suspicious, I ask that you notify me at once.
5655TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_008Pray help me patrol the Short Pier area. If aught strikes you as suspicious, I ask that you notify me at once.
5756TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SYSTEM_000_010There is nothing out of the ordinary.
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5958TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SYSTEM_000_012You catch sight of a quaint charm.
6059TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_020There you are. Did you observe aught suspicious?
6160TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_021A charm...and it is stained with blood. But where have I seen it before...?
6261TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_022<gasp> This belonged to Captain Kongo! There is no mistake─it ever adorned his neck.
6362TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_023But how did it come to be at the docks?
6463TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_Q1_100_020What will you say?
6564TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_A1_100_021Did you actually see his body?
6665TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_A2_100_022Perhaps he went for a stroll before taking his own life.
6766TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_026No, I myself did not see it...
6867TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_027...A stroll? Captain Kongo lived and breathed his duty as a samurai. If he had resolved to commit seppuku, there would have been no hesitation.
6968TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_028But by the same token, the dutiful captain I know would not have left us all behind to struggle for want of his leadership...
7069TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_024<gasp> Could it be...'twas but a ruse? That the captain did not kill himself, but rather was slain by insurgents?
7170TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_025Kami preserve... If this is true, it would mean the enemy walks among us!
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7372TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_027We must notify Shiden at once and have him bolster security around the Tairo. To the Thavnairian Consulate, Player!
7473TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEKISEITAISOLDIERA_100_030If you are after Lieutenant Shiden, I'm afraid he isn't here.
7574TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEKISEITAISOLDIERB_100_031My blade's ready. I dare those insurgent scum to show themselves.
7675TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEKISEITAISOLDIERC_100_032We'll protect the Tairo with our lives.
7776TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_030Why isn't the lieutenant here? What is he doing?
7877TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SEKISEITAISOLDIERA_100_033...What he's doing? Come now, *surely* you know of His Excellency the Tairo's predilections.
7978TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_034Y-You mean the rumors were true?
8079TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_031It is whispered that the Tairo is wont to indulge his voracious appetite for pleasure houses under the guise of official duty.
8180TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_032If this is the case, then he will be in Sanjo Hanamachi, and so too will Shiden. Let us hurry!
8281TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_040Shiden? What are you doing?
8382TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_041You two... Why are you not at the docks?
8483TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_042I was given to understand that the Tairo is come not on official but personal business.
8584TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_043Aye, that he is, but that is none of our concern. At any rate, I have the area well covered. You may return to your stations.
8685TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_044Shiden, wait.
8786TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_045There is no danger here. Why was your katana drawn?
8887TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_046...
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9089TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_048You are too clever by half. More's the pity we failed to finish you off on Sakazuki.
9190TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_049Your foreign friend was supposed to die then as well, but we underestimated Musosai's pupil.
9291TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_050How could you, Shiden? The captain was your friend!
9392TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_051...Let me tell you a tale. I was born in a farming village and grew up in squalor. Our liege lord was a tyrant, one who wrung us peasants for everything we had. None dared to rise up for fear of their lives.
9493TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_052My parents, pushed to the brink of survival, mustered the courage to speak out. For their troubles, they were promptly arrested, but it did not end there. Nay, our lord wished to make an example, and so he had them burned alive before the gathered villagers.
9594TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_053Through gritted teeth I watched my mother and father die, powerless to help. In that moment, I vowed to myself that one day, I would change all that is wrong with the world. I took up the katana and trained like a man possessed, and eventually won a place in the Sekiseigumi.
9695TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_054In the beginning I was overjoyed─finally, I could make a difference! But reality couldn't be more different, and ere long I came to see the Sekiseigumi for what it was: a tool of the powers that be, glorified guardsmen who patrol the streets for petty criminals.
9796TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_100_054Samurai... Justice... These things are naught but hollow ideals, and they can change nothing. This I realized to my despair.
9897TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_055But then I met Lord Ugetsu, and he awakened me to the truth: that in order to bring about true change, we must bring down the bakufu.
9998TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_100_055We must tear down the establishment and dig it up from its rotted roots!
10099TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_056You are my comrade and I feel your pain, but Ugetsu's path leads only to death and destruction! Countless people would be made to suffer!
101100TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_057Hah, no more than what we endured in our village. There is no hope for Hingashi but to be reborn─in the fires of conflict!
102101TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_058This is madness! I will not allow your twisted vision to be realized!
103102TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_059Then it seems we must cross blades. But are you certain you wish to do so here, where an unwitting passerby could come to harm? It wouldn't reflect well upon the Sekiseigumi, I know.
104103TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_059Hmph...
105104TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_060Let us take this to Matsuba Square. The others are out on security detail, and there will be no one to disturb us.
106105TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_070It's over, Shiden.
107106TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_100_070<pant> Over? Nay, Kongo, this is only the beginning.
108107TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_SHIDEN_000_071<grunt> Long live Lord Ugetsu!
109108TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_072Farewell, old friend. May we meet again in the next life.
110109TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_073Captain, thank the kami you're safe! Will you tell us what happened?
111110TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_074I will. But first, there is something I must do.
112111TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_075Player, for your timely intervention, I give you my thanks. And for my earlier discourtesy, I beg your forgiveness.
113112TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_075Allow me to thank you also. Were you not on hand, there is no telling what might have come to pass.
114113TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_076With me gone, Shiden would have had free rein. He was the last any of us would have suspected.
115114TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_076Aye... When he told us that you had committed seppuku, none thought to question it.
116115TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_077Hah, a convenient lie, but a poor one. Any who know me well should know that I would not take my leave ere I had dealt with the insurgents. To do so would be the greater shame by far.
117116TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_078Now then, let me recount to you my tale. Late at night, Shiden summoned me to the docks to discuss an urgent matter. As I approached him, the wretch slashed out at me without warning.
118117TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_100_079Though I couldn't react in time to dodge the blade, for a blessing it caught my charm, sparing me a fatal wound. My momentum sent me over the docks and into the sea, where I remained until it was safe to resurface. My lungs were ripe to burst when Shiden finally left.
119118TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_078Such an ordeal that must have been...
120119TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_079Having learned that there were traitors beside Shiden, I kept to the shadows and watched their movements. And the rest you know.
121120TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_080With the Tairo safe and the traitors dealt with, we may return to the barracks. Let us continue our conversation there.
122121TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_100_081Player, my thanks again for your help.
123122TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_000_085To think that Shiden was a traitor... I still struggle to believe it.
124123TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_090You journeyed here from a distant land in order to lend your strength to our beleaguered order, yet I drew my blade upon you.
125124TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_091As it turned out, 'twas those whom I thought I knew and trusted that betrayed me. Suffice it to say I feel a right fool.
126125TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_091But now we have succeeded in rooting out all traitors in our ranks.
127126TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_093That we have. And from those we caught, we were able to wring out some key details of their operation.
128127TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_094Shiden had been seducing our men over to Ugetsu's side. Those who proved unamenable to his advances were killed, like our comrade in the recent mission. It makes my blood boil to think that those most loyal among us were struck down by treachery...
129128TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_094What of Ugetsu's whereabouts?
130129TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_095It appears he makes his base on the mainland, somewhere in Yanxia, but the precise location still eludes us.
131130TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_095...Forgive me if I speak out of turn, Captain, but even as we laid our lives on the line, the Tairo went about satisfying his urges. Can we truly say that we protected the peace this day?
132131TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_096Well do I understand your frustration, Makoto. Yet for his many vices, there is no denying the instrumental role the Tairo plays in keeping the realm whole. Ever are the great lords watching for a fracture to form, by which they might break the status quo and usurp power. Through skillful intercession and manipulation, the Tairo keeps each of them in check.
133132TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_097'Tis no secret that the bakufu is a cesspool of corruption, but in spite of this we must protect the peace. Such is a samurai's calling.
134133TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_KONGO_000_098Though you come to us from afar, you share this calling with us. I pray that we can continue relying upon your blade, my ijin samurai friend.
135134TEXT_JOBSAM650_02568_MAKOTO_100_099Allow me to add my voice to the captain's. You are a stalwart ally to our cause and a samurai true. Master Musosai was not mistaken in choosing you.
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